Sir Charles G. D. Roberts 4 hr 30 min read

At the dawn of the world, before civilization, early man kindles the first fire, battles the King of the Triple Horn, and struggles to survive among the great beasts.

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts's 1922 novel is a vivid prehistoric adventure of humanity's earliest days. Dramatic, imaginative, richly told period fiction. Read it for a rousing evolutionary romance of cavemen, mammoths, and the hard-won birth of human ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).